Buenos Aires, Oct 17 (EFE).- The preliminary autopsy report on Liam Payne, the former member of the British band One Direction who died the day before in Buenos Aires after falling from the third floor of a hotel, shows that he died of a “multiple trauma” and suffered “internal and external hemorrhage,” according to local police sources reported this Thursday.
The autopsy, carried out by the forensic medical team of the Supreme Court of Justice, led by forensic experts Santiago Maffia Bizzozero and Víctor Cohen, confirmed that the 31-year-old musician died from the fall.
Payne, composer and guitarist, died this past Wednesday after falling from the third floor of a hotel in the Palermo neighborhood of the Argentine capital.
In the afternoon, the manager of the establishment told the local police “that he felt a loud noise” in the hotel’s internal rear patio, and the officers later confirmed the death of Payne, who had jumped from the balcony of his room.
The director of the medical emergency services of the city of Buenos Aires, Alberto Crescenti, later told local media that the fall caused him “very serious injuries that immediately caused his death” and then told the TN channel that “there was no possibility of revival”.
The event occurred at 5:07 p.m. (GMT 20:07) yesterday. Minutes before, from the Casa Sur hotel, located on Costa Rica Street at 6000 Palermo, they called the 911 emergency line to ask for help for a guest who – they said – was under the influence of drugs and alcohol and who had destroyed some objects in the room.
According to a statement from the National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor’s Office 16, forensic experts determined that the 25 injuries described in Payne’s autopsy are compatible with those caused by a fall from a height.
They also noted that Payne’s head injuries were “sufficient to cause death,” while internal and external hemorrhages – in the skull, thorax, abdomen and limbs – contributed to his death.
The forensic experts concluded that “no defensive type injuries were found” on the hands, that all the injuries on the body were vital and produced at the same time and that they did not observe “injuries that suggest the intervention of third parties.”
The medical examiners requested complementary studies, which could confirm or rectify the preliminary autopsy.
Payne was part of One Direction in 2010, along with Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Harry Styles, after they performed individually on the talent show The X Factor.
After becoming one of the world’s biggest pop groups with five albums and four world tours, One Direction went on indefinite hiatus in 2016.
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